I’Onissimo! March 25th. Concert Features Boccherini, Bernstein, Joplin and Borodin

Location Map for this Concert. 

Image, Right, The Ranis Home in I'On.  The musicians will perform from the first floor porch.  Dr. Kindel will sound the bugel calls from the second floor porch shortly before the concert.

Music composed by Boccherini, Borodin, Joplin and Bernstien will be featured in an I’Onissimo!  concert on Sunday, March 25th. at 3:00 P.M.  The free concert will be held on the porch of the Rainis family at 163 East Shipyard Road in I’On Village, Mt. Pleasant, SC.  A blanket or folding chair is recommended for lawn seating in adjacent Eastlake Park.  In case of rain, the concert will be moved indoors to the central hall of the Rainis’ unusual octagonal home and there will be limited seating.

Musicians performing will include Vanessa Chambers and Melanie Vanderwege, Cello; Julia Hamilton and Marlena Davis, Violin; and Mary Ann Spivy, viola.  Anna Draftz will play French horn in a performance of Boccherini Sextet in E Flat Major.  Other music on the program will include string arrangements of ragtime pieces by American composer Scott Joplin and selections from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstien.  Selected movements from the Borodin String Quartet #2 will conclude the program.

Prior to the Concert Dr. Tom Kindel of the I'Onissimo! Brass will sound bugle calls from the 2nd. Floor Porch of the Ranis home to announce the eminent start of the concert.

This concert begins the Spring I’Onissimo! series which will also include an April 8th. concert of music for voice, an April 29th. brass concert and a May 27th. finale of season highlights presented as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Most of the concerts are held on the porches of homes in I’On village, with seating beneath the live oaks in Eastlake Park.  The vocal concert will be indoors.

This concert is the first in the I'Onissimo Spring Series which takes it's theme "Music in Proportion" from to golden section principles of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who discovered and harmonized the principals of music and architecture in ancient Greece. 

Interested musicians living in or outside of I’On are welcome to join the group, which welcomes all skill levels.

The series is supported by the I’On Trust, a non profit community foundation.

For more information call 849-8481 or check the web at www.awod.com/hamilton/.